- 1. Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.
- 2. I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.
- 3. But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.
- 4. For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.
- 5. Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
- 6. Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.
- 7. Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?
- 8. Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?
- 9. Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?
- 10. He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.
- 11. Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
- 12. Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.
- 13. Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
- 14. Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?
- 15. Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
- 16. He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.
- 17. Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.
- 18. Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.
- 19. Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.
- 20. But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.
- 21. Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.
- 22. Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.
- 23. Howe many are mine iniquities & sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.
- 24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
- 25. Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
- 26. For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.
- 27. Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.
- 28. Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
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